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No additional space on Business Advanced anymore.
Dear community,
I'm here to advice that the support have been denying us additional space for two weeks, first telling us that there was a momentary problem, then that we had made a request before ...
So 15 TB it is. And forget about getting or keeping 35 TB per license (user). So now those that have hundreds of TB's with Dropbox will be forced to either pay hundreds or thousands per month or just leave.
Think about it. $90 month * 12 months is already $1080 a year. If you buy 6 18TB drives for $180 each from serverpartdeals for example, that gives you 5 drives at 18TB of space and a parity drive, so 90TB of space for the same $1080. Difference is, you don't pay this every single month like you will be doing with dropbox and you will have yourself MORE space than what they are going to be leaving everyone with.
For those with the space, find an enclosure or use an existing one and start Unraid as a VM. Get a cheap sata riser card and now you have a NAS! At least this is the route I believe I am going with within the next month or two.
I do not see myself keeping 30TB I was stopped at with Dropbox just to keep paying $90/month. Absolutely not worth it anymore.
This is true about hosting your own data vs paying the cloud to store it. Benefit of the cloud is no maintenance and fast access to your data. Even with the Google crackdown, I am going BACK to Google. With 5 users @ 20/user/month = $100/mo. You get 25TB, and when you get to 80% of 25TB you can request more, they allocate an additonal 5tb per user, every 90 days.So if you already have an account that's full, you can add the extra users and get 50TB instantly. Then 90 days later you can get 25tb more, now your at 75TB. So while slow, Google will eventually give you the space you need if your patient. You can also increase the amount of space you get by adding more users.
- They won't end up blocking you..., I couldn't trust the cloud, I'm seriously thinking about stopping
- What? The enterprise plan is still *as much space as needed*, they won't stop giving out storage upgrades, it's part of the plan. You just have to wait 90 days in between requests.
- Dropbox was also unlimited, when everyone will come back to Google, and they will have storage PB again, Google will lock again, it's a vicious circle
It would take years to get up to the PB storage, where as before, it was as much as you could store, per the 750gb upload limit per day. But still, I have had 3 phone conversations with support and every single one of them has told me there is no amount of total storage that is not allowed. You just have to do it every 90 days now.
Don’t trust anything support tell you (Google or Dropbox ). Remember Dropbox promised until 2/3 weeks ago that “ofc it’s as much storage as needed! Come over!”
Anything first line support tell you it’s being read from a book and it can change at a moments notice.
Dropbox, well done on losing the custom of thousands of users because you couldn’t be bothered to have any safeguards in place to prevent abuse but more than that, to lie barefacedly to your customers about the “as much storage as needed”.
Lesson learned from my end.- Hello everyone, for information I also asked for a refund of my dropbox. Good luck to all!
